The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
All sorts of Heroes are intrinsically of the same material; that given a great soul, open to the Divine Significance of Life,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
What a wretched thing is all fame! A renown of the highest sort endures, say, for two thousand years. And then? Why,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility?… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Great men are the inspired texts of that divine Book of Revelations, whereof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession;… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Let Time and Chance combine, combine! Let Time and Chance combine! The fairest love from heaven above, That love of yours was mine, My… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
